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Top ten smartest living people - smartest people alive
by Ofey
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Intelligence is a nebulous concept, one that I suspect lacks meaning altogether. Does intelligence refer to brainpower, or to problem solving ability? Is there any difference? Does intelligence perhaps refer to something else, like creativity or intuition? And what do we even mean when we refer to those things? Is intelligence measured by potential or performance? If potential, doesn't this change throughout one's lifetime (if for no other reason than that the physical structure of our brains changes)? If performance, isn't intelligence then nothing more than a statement of historical intellectual triumphs rather than an indicator of future insights? And how do we know that there is even a smartest person alive? Settling on a list of the ten smartest people is probably no less absurd than generating a list of the ten biggest numbers. The concept of intelligence is not clear cut, but this list certainly is.


 

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1975-07-17
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Australia  United States 
Gender:
Male 
Profession:
Mathematician 
Year:
2006-09
Honored For:
Mathematics 
Title:
Professor 
Date Born:
Jul 17 1975

  


 

 

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Terence Tao. To some this name is synonymous with mathematical genius, to others with prodigiousness, and to some with glory. He coauthored a a beautiful proof that there are arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions in the primes, and maintains an extremely popular blog. He is an easy addition to my list of the top ten smartest living people.

  


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